DS iQue #0004: Shenyou Maliou DS (China)

[phoood]

I guess the piracy scene is pretty much non-existent in China.

 

[Pikachu025]

I guess the piracy scene is pretty much non-existent in China.

I honestly hope this was a joke.

 

[HipN]

I guess the piracy scene is pretty much non-existent in China.

YEHA RIGHT!

 

[flai]

I guess the piracy scene is pretty much non-existent in China.

Thats why there is the iQue, to try and stop piracy.

Fucking stand up job of it by the way guys, your really on top of things.

 

[Jax]

The original iQue player played N64 games you had to download at cartain kiosks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQue_Player

 

[AWESOME_noob]

..the fuck!?

nuff said...

 

[leetdude_007]

I always wanted an iQue Lite. I wonder if you can set it to English in the startup menu...

It's about time. Nintendo can't ignore 1.3 billion people where 20% of the population is under 14. It floods money.

 

[JPH]

Is this the only Chinese NDS release?

 

[Tomobobo]

Shenyou Maliou

So luigi will be

Shenyou luiliou

Hmm wait no.. it's not super luigi is it?

It's the Super Mario Brothers, as in: the brothers Mario. Super is an adjective which describes these Mario brothers. So, by deducting that the brothers are referred to as super, you can safely assume that Luigi is also super, since he is, after all, one of the super Mario brothers.

 

[ImperialX]

lol These releases are rare because in China everyone use Flash Carts to play English Roms. Nintendo is aware of this and that's why they don't release much Chinese games, seeing no one would buy them.

 

[arctic_flame]

True. And there are "scene" translation projects that go amazingly fast (for example Zelda Phantom Hourglass)

 

[rcxAsh]

I had always read about not being able to play Chinese games on international DS' handhelds, but I found that I was able to play 迷失蔚藍2 (aka Lost in Blue 2) on my North American DS (on an R4 if it makes any difference). The characters showed up fine. I didn't play very much though, since my Chinese is way too weak to enjoy it fully.

I wasn't expecting it to work though...?

 

[pkprostudio]

Finally! This is the game I've been waiting for all my life!

 

[JacobReaper]

huh =3

 

[Lumstar]

I don't know how many games are released there, but... The "scene" tends to be uninterested in tracking down and dumping iQue products because they've so far mostly been late rereleases of games that already have English or Japanese versions.

We'll see more of them should they become popular enough for developers to create new China-exclusive titles.

 

[moribund112]

theclaw is right.

the translation projects here go amazingly fast, in fact we have full translations for all the gyakuten saiban games for some years now, during the gba time. from what I understand, hackers here were still trying to grasp the font system by the time we had already had the game for quite some time.

we also have hack projects for the NDS, but they are buggy; for example, Phoenix Wright. It works, but sometimes will hang, it's not easy to text hack an NDS game.

I'm kind of disappointed with the attitude of a lot of people here regarding China. Yes, piracy is an issue, but isn't this gbatemp? The average person here makes less than $100 a month. Do the math, iQue is a great venture into the market, but they've got to pick up the pace because gamers are notoriously impatient.

And there were several times when the people tried to get control of the government. That was in 1989, and look at what happened. Chinese people have been through hell in the past one hundred years due to Japanese aggression and colonialism, not to mention communism and starvation, followed up through the cultural revolution which lasted for ten years. Now people are making more and more money every year, and opportunities are appearing for jobs. Why rock the boat any more than you have to? Sometimes sacrifices must be made.

 

[BlueStar]

I'm rolling my eyes at some of the sarky comments in this thread. From my experiences Chinese folk are hard working (especially at school), polite and generally smart. They get a rough ride from an overly paranoid government which is responsible from some oppressive censorship and nasty human rights abuses. However, now the economy is getting so strong and people on top are starting to embrace a bit of western style capitalism (Which also has it's down points of course) things are getting slightly more relaxed.

Bush and other western leaders are also getting much more pally-pally with China because they know it's going to be so huge on the world stage and want them on-side. On the one hand, this is good for the people of China because of better relations and trade with other countries and the benefits it brings. On the other hand, better relationships and happy handshaking photoshoots with western leaders and the Chinese government sort of implies you're OK with some of their dodgy practises. Countries won't even play cricket against Zimbabwe because of human rights abuses there and there's still the ridiculous US trade embargo with Cuba, yet everyone in the west wants to be China's new best pal.

But like moribund says, sometimes you can't change things straight away. It's not as easy as just toppling the government and installing shiny happy democracy as we've found out. I hope it goes well for China, mostly because I think it's healthy to have more than one superpower in the world. But I also hope that one day they can read and write anything they want on the internet without fear. As long as they keep sending me cheap electronics off ebay with cool stamps on

 

[Oracle]

I pretty much agreed what moribund and bluestar said. On top of that, you can keep laughing at China for whatever revolution that is happening now. But imagine what would you be paying for a DS, a LCD, plasma, computer, and countless other products now, without China. Don't act like you are more superior than the Chinese while you are enjoying the benefits, especially when you are here in this forum talking about "backup" games.

 

[Urza]

But imagine what would you be paying for a DS, a LCD, plasma, computer, and countless other products now, without China.

Probably a similiar price. We'd just move our factories to some other country where people work for almost nothing.

 

[jchen]

But imagine what would you be paying for a DS, a LCD, plasma, computer, and countless other products now, without China.

Probably a similiar price. We'd just move our factories to some other country where people work for almost nothing.

Now, arent you arrogant